2,272 Quotes About Human-nature

With work misery is relieved, with laziness misery is multiplied.

Sometimes translation stops you understanding.

The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature.

Sex has high stakes, including exploitation, disease, illegitimacy, incest, jealousy, spousal abuse, cuckoldry, desertion, feuding, child abuse, and rape. These hazards have been around for a long time and have left their mark on our customs and our emotions.

The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things.

Concevoir des aristocraties est une technologie qui aide à tolérer la promiscuité ; c’est une autre façon de satisfaire les besoins d’un moi demandeur de contact, dont les certificats d’acceptation et les règles de conduite nous poussent cependant à mépriser nos voisins.

The thing about truth is that it’s not the same as fact. They’re synonyms but shouldn’t be, Haruka’s realized. Facts just are. Everything adds up, check out. Truth requires faith. It’s personal. It can change. Like with love. One day someone knows they love you—they feel it, they know it’s there—then the next day they don’t. They felt it then they didn’t. It happens. Most people trust truth more than they do facts. This is because people are stupid.

Love has no gender - compassion has no religion - character has no race.

Either you are homophobic or you are a human - you cannot be both.